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Yu-Fang Liu (劉語芳)

Skewb · top 1.4% of 73,281 all-time · competing since May 2016 · 2016LIUY05

Yu-Fang Liu (劉語芳) has been competing for 10 years. Her best event is the Skewb: a personal-best single of 2.02, set at Dream One Cube Open 2019, puts her in the top 1.4% of the 73,281 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 11th in Chinese Taipei. Until December 2014, no official Skewb solve in the world had been that fast. Across 25 competitions since May 2016, she has put 698 official solves on the record across ten events. Solve to solve, her 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 62% of the 35,811 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. Her 3×3 best has come down from 20.93 in May 2016 to 8.44, a 60% improvement. She has entered 25 competitions, more competitions than 98% of everyone who has ever competed.

Skewb
best event — top 1.4% of 73,281 all-time
2.02
signature single · Dream One Cube Open 2019
698
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 62% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingChinese Taipei
Skewb2.022.91
top 1.4%11 / 699
3×38.449.58
top 3.6%209 / 4,213
Pyraminx3.266.01
top 4.5%69 / 1,016
2×22.483.66
top 8.7%239 / 1,669
3×3 one-handed15.6018.21
top 9.4%136 / 802
5×51:08.201:27.34
top 10.4%162 / 639
4×439.2945.72
top 11.3%257 / 1,078
Clock9.4711.48
top 22.4%94 / 366
Square-117.8821.80
top 23.1%104 / 323
Megaminx1:37.46—
early days — 2 solves188 / 362

Percentile against all competitors ever ranked in each event, a fairer measure than raw rank, because the pools differ by a factor of ten.

The line so far

Taichung Cube Open 2016: 20.93Happy Cubing Taiwan 2016: 15.00Taiwan Championship 2016: 14.50Lanyang Open 2017: 11.52Cross-strait Cubing Exchange 2017: 12.04Taiwan Championship 2017: 12.68Taiwan Championship 2018: 11.55Shin Kong Cube Open 2023: 10.34Taichung Open 2024: 11.07Honhui Cubing Carnival 2024: 11.20Taipei Summer Open 2024: 8.87Hsinchu Summer Open 2024: 10.23Shin Kong Cube Open - Taichung 2024: 9.78Taoyuan Airport Cube Day 2024: 9.37Zhongshan Open 2025: 9.51Maru Cube Day Taiwan 2025: 9.99Shin Kong Cube Open - Taichung 2025: 9.65Taoyuan Airport Cube Day 2025: 8.68Taiwan Championship 2025: 9.57BQHS Spring Open 2026: 9.41Zhongshan Open 2026: 9.61Taipei Cube Open 2026: 8.74Shin Kong Cube Open - Taichung 2026: 8.448.4420.931 May 201630 Aug 2026

Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.

The story so far

Competitions

Reading this page: a single is one solve's time · an average is the middle three of five solves, best and worst discarded · a PB is a personal best · a DNF (did not finish) is an attempt with no valid result: a popped piece, an unsolved face, an over-limit memorisation · top X% compares against everyone ever ranked in that event, which is fairer than raw rank because event pools differ tenfold.

The circuit

The people whose scorecards keep turning up next to her.

Next targets

  • A sub-2 Skewb single — 1,013 people have one; it is 0.02 away.
  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 7,931 people have one; it is 0.44 away.

Targets move as she improves.